Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Lancashire (1926)

[miffykitty666]

:D amazing video!

[M4OON]

Valhalla now stands on this spot where this 'reel' was !

[davemirra145]

@M4OON yeh because it burnt down! haha valhalla=best water ride i have ever been on!

[M4OON]

Valhalla now stands on this spot !

[mrbubbles338]

Did they recolour this video or something

[john111257]

classic footage..

[Kattymieoww]

Aww I remember in the 70's and 80's just going into the pleasure beach to ride the grand national etc,just because our boarding house was so near.Shame that they have closed off folk,just wanting to take one or two rides.

[davemckiernan]

Wow - I remember being on that ride when I was about 6. It was great fun because it felt so rickety and quite dangerous! The cars rotated while you were descending and the whole family could squeeze in. Nowadays you've got to but a f**kin wristband even if you only want to go on one ride. Conning twats.

[PleasureBeachFTW]

@davemckiernan Excuse me you do not have to get a f**kin wristband you can get a £5 pleasure beach pass unlike any other major park in the country which charge you full price to walk around unlike Pleasure Beach and they still do sell ride tickets for your information get your facts right before going saying stuff like they are conning cunts. Maybe you should visit a Merlin park and see which one has better value ... Some people are just thick

[davemckiernan]

@PleasureBeachFTW The £5 Pleasure Beach Pass would not permit me to ride on anything other than the Pleasure Beach Express or to explore the Maze. Everyone I speak to complains about the cost of going there so please don't delude. I used to frequent the Pleasure Beach when I lived nearby. If you're trying to tell me that the current owners have families' satisfaction at heart, as opposed to extracting as much profit as is achievable, then you're obviously not very bright or an employee perhaps?

[PleasureBeachFTW]

@davemckiernan PMSL No it would not permit you to rides as you say correctly but you can still buy ride tickets and not everyone complains about the £5 I have heard a lot of good and bad views on it. £5 is nothing unless you compare it to the £40 entrance fee at Alton Towers to just walk around. I can't believe that you have said that the current owners do not have family satisfaction at heart you are VERY WRONG, they replaced the tatty childrens area with a 10.3 million area Nickelodeon Land

[PleasureBeachFTW]

@davemckiernan Also to add they are getting two more family attractions next year. I am very sorry you have your opinion I have mine. I just get annoyed when people slag Pleasure Beach off as I am a big fan Amanda Thompson is doing a fantastic job, the place looks better than ever and BTW the PB pass has made the park a lot more friendlier for families. Once again, Sorry for the trouble

[davemckiernan]

@PleasureBeachFTW Hey that's fine. I find it frustrating that everywhere seems to be charging more and more for what we had before and yet staff levels always seem to be in decline. I know we have to be more competetive nowadays, mainly due to privatisation, but everything seems to be run in an increasingly 'skeletal' fashion today. I used to be a contractor for BPB and the staff were always very friendly there. My argument was more of a general one against modern trends than against BPB, sorry.

[PleasureBeachFTW]

@davemckiernan The staff at PB are superb this year. People would moan more if they started to charge full price to walk around so this way is fantastic IMO.

[Fernbank147]

This ride looks pretty damn fun...... they should have something of this idea these days!!

[Fernbank147]

Blackpool is,and always will be the top holiday destination in the UK for me.It has had millions of pounds invested in order to make it a holiday destination again.Stop spending money abroad and keep it in our economy, I promise a Blackpool holiday will be more fun than that of Spain, etc! Some day people will not be able to afford to go abroad and will have to make do with UK destinations, but by this time Blackpool will be run down again due to lack of visitors over the years!

[edster86]

Lol i love how its good old man power to get the rides going ;) Ahhh times seemed so much easier then wish i was alive to live through it !

[CockneyBurberry]

blackpool. looks fucking horrible now

[r3playretro]

@CockneyBurberry that's cos everyone fucked off to spain and spent their money there. less people coming to blackpool meant there was less money to invest, which led to a run-down town. it seems to be getting back on it's feet now, though

[nicefella3]

my father was born that year.....

[bangbnagbang]

it was possible because so many indian worked a lot. and british took it all.

[blablaman233]

0:21 holy shit thats noahs ark!!!!!!

[chrssgreen]

@blablaman233 Look behind the Noahs ark.. You can see the flying machines.Pleasure beaches oldest ride..

[blablaman233]

@chrssgreen yeah i missed that, incredible looking back at the birth of theme parks

[FANNYLEROUX]

Brilliant!

[xch251298x]

look how much has changed since then !

[ManfredDeJesus]

The soundtrack score for this film is fantastic, any info on who wrote and played the music?

[MaxxFrost]

This is not only in color, it's in 3D. Notice the red and blue around the edges of some objects. Watching with 3D glasses does show depth. Whther this is intentional or a byproduct of the film type that was used, I don't know. But it is in 3D.

[BFIfilms]

@MaxxFrost The colour fringing is a by-product of the Friese-Greene process, whereby the film was shot with each alternate frame being passed through a red or green filter mounted on a rotating wheel in front of the lens. This worked well for static objects, but if they were moving, this caused colour fringing - which was one of the reasons why Friese-Greene's colour process was never adopted commercially. The film is definitely not in 3D, since the film was shot through just one lens.

[1970spianist]

Great film and GREAT MUSIC backing!

[Pauluk33]

god that awsome quality

[MusicLight123]

Love the fashions of the 20's!

[videotimesss1]

Beautiful! I'm not sure what happened, things are different now, but I would sure like to spend a day at that place, in that time.

[Scrabbler27]

I would love to see their faces if they went on the Pespi Max!

[talmosco]

trickle down economy.

[whoshotjfk]

pleasure beach....i got the wrong idea.

[59AJ59]

That surely can't be safe lol

[talfacprez]

What a brilliant Roller Coaster.

[pushbiker3]

it looks so clean no litter on the floor unlike today

[VOXS2]

is that really 1926? course ive been watching alot of videos of 1901 and the way they use to dress up.. from 1901 and look at 1926 between these 2 different years have change quite alot from the way people use to dress up.

[MentalRob]

@VOXS2 well, that is a 25 year difference, do you dress like you did in 1985?

[MentalRob]

@VOXS2 well, that is a 25 year difference, do you dress like you did in 1985?

[Hikikomori013]

@MentalRob Actually, yes. I haven't changed much since 1985. I just wear larger sizes and the hat covers less hair.

I'd like to ride the "Reel". That actually looks like a better ride than the 30 second rocket coasters they rush you through these days.

[mistofoles]

WTF?? The Noah's Ark was there THEN??

[piano345]

I rode it in the 1950s with a group of friends. Looks very attractive in 1926 - had a different scenic background in the fifties. I wonder if its still there? Nowadays,young people might find it a bit tame. There was another ride called 'The Bug' in the fifties and I wonder if that ride is stiil there.

[jclax63]

@piano345 I'm sorry to say that ride is no longer there

[MrBenben4]

That coaster looks awesome, why did they scrap it? couldn't they just revamp it every few years?

[vgmaster9]

We should have a modern recreation of that ride.

[leannezoeee]

im not sure if its still there but before the pleasure beach turned into a fill resort , the ark was still there , i know it was there at atleast 2001 if not later

[leekybee]

Oh the memories!! The Reel (Virginia Reel) was one of my favourite rides! It felt much faster than it looks - no bars pinning you in position in those days ;)

[FAMEROB]

wow soo clear

[wla7777]

amazing

[MegaGomL]

ok ride 4 bk den

[Calmany37]

the quality is superb looks like it was filmed yesterday

[leauk]

@Calmany37 It does doesn't it? it's amazing quality.

[61vanilla]

_LiNKlink-LiNk#THe ReMaiNs oF THe Day....

WiNKwinkWiNK#THe CoLoR oF MoNeY !!!

[GrandPrix55]

So Noah's Ark was there even then!

[CutieMias09]

Yea i can see how much Blackpool Pleasure Beach has really changed since.

The rides have completley change.

And the rides are run better now

So good memories from the past

[manoverboardagain]

Great to see, my paternal grandparents spent their honeymoon in Blackpool in 1927

[ninnynaf]

why dec.21 2012? whats happening then? n i think they should of kept this ride at pleasure beach!

[w4rr0ckm4st3r]

Apparently the world will end then because the Myan calender says so(But it's actually 2220,the people who originally worked it out using the calender made a few mistakes)

[59acres]

I lost my viriginty at Pleasure Beach in 1924.I was 56 years old.Last sex I ever had.I'm hoping 2010 will be more productive.

[yaddaaaa2222222]

why not wait until 2012 when the world is going to end..you can go out with a bang.

[59acres]

I guess 2 more years won't hurt thanks for the tip!!!

[yaddaaaa2222222]

yvw steve.

[59acres]

If you are female what are you doing dec.21 ,2012?

[yaddaaaa2222222]

Might be at Blackpool pleasure beach.

[59acres]

Cool.I'll be the 143 year old with the expectant smile.

[yaddaaaa2222222]

and no teeth.

[59acres]

I'm saving up for a new set.....should have em by then so start practicing that pucker.

[yaddaaaa2222222]

lol

[59acres]

I'm listening to Kate Rusby tunes at the minute and I must say shes looking very good too.JUst to let you know you might have some competition deary.

[yaddaaaa2222222]

not trying to compete.. love me or leave me, that is my motto.

[RabidRaccoonUK]

Heh... A Virginia Wheel, as featured in Roller Coaster Tycoon. :-P Do any still exist in the world?

[Lifesucksdie123]

someone's all dead inside...

great vid though!

[MaryOMackie]

They made everything so beautiful then. Those things don't seem to be as important now. Beautiful buildings, beautiful clothing, attention to detail, humans being important. Now everything is a throw away.

[john111257]

@MaryOMackie totally agree...good old days indeed

[Mesterse]

@MaryOMackie People lived in abject poverty and died of things like pneumonia. I prefer the present.

[sonicmaster743]

crap

[sonicmaster743]

the pleasure beach is well better now more rides and better rides

[djfireball999]

you're retarded.

[MatthewTheServant]

WOW brillian quality, good find!!

[liamrossabby]

fabulous pic quality....omg 80 years ago......mad

[FIREWORKEVENTS]

Sad loss, such a nice looking ride.......

[pennyTPproductions]

the reel! lmao! i'd love to go on that it'd be so funny!

[chopsuzy]

Some of these rides look brillliant, I wish they were still there :-( but they seem to be getting rid of all the old rides. The whip has disappeared over past year or so and even that old victorian arcade has been removed in place for the newest ride Infusion. Sad really because it gave the Pleasure Beach a bit of character instead of being the stereotypical themepark.

[danfobia89]

Old rides have high running costs and break down more. pleasure beach needed to make there park more modern recently cos the same rides have always been there and less people go on them. ( i am a fan of the old classic rides) but buisness is biusness, and the only way for them to beat there rivals is buy being the ones brining in the most money

[coolcabbage43]

I know!

[nalalayla]

wow how its changd!

[ssqtch]

boo they dont got thrill

[SpursYid74]

Oh i see, i've just read the info at the side.

[SpursYid74]

How is the quality so good and in colour for 1926? ..magical.

[nippletease]

idk

[simmysssssssssss]

this is in colour.. how?

[accebernosam]

colour film actually came about a LONG time ago but it was very rare until about the 1960's

[partheniaparthenia]

incredible quality in this film- amazing to see . thanks

[thestevo46]

sharp quality film for a film from so long ago,this is just great,im always in love with Blackpool.

[funkymartin]

Very sadly, this classic ride closed at the end of the 1982 season. That July I luckily managed to take my inaugural, and what transpired to be final ride. I was gutted to see a Rainbow ride on its hallowed ground five years later, and now the "exciting" Globe Theatre!

[nalalayla]

it looks like a fun ride too! It made me laugh how the man pushed them to get going-can you imagine that now???? Mannual handling??!

[mushroomed87]

Wow the reel was beautifuly decorated!

[antonyellitts]

wow tht should of stayed its so much better thyn the REALLY COOL WATER DISPLAY FOR 2009

[nsmnerd]

what year did the real close?

[frankiefelix]

What beautiful colours! This is the Blackpool of my Mother's childhood - thank you so much. :-)

[Adiegym]

the reel loks soo much fun! i wannaa have a goo! :P

[mesmoland]

I had a ride on the reel the year it closed,great film !

[mattymDADYM]

i remember going on the grand national and the big dipper when i was young i still go to blackpool every yeaer

[rodneypullit]

superb. i remember my grandad drawing a picture of that roller coaster when he got fed up of trying to describe it to me 25 years ago

[LaPieinsky]

cool comment

[EXTREMECHAOS94]

@rodneypullit LOL

[loyndsy]

OMG I remember the reel when I was a nipper,when my dad went to the car auction nearby I got to go to the PB but I was too small to go on the Reel it was still on the go in the 70's

[Raquzzic]

they do exist!!! virginia reels!

[IdahoMoe1963]

The roller coaster is fantastic!